the greateft part of the year: it is ufually increafed by cuttings, 
and is very liable to be loft, hence it becomes neceffary to have 
feveral pots of it in different fituations.. - : 
Linnaeus tells us, that the flowers in the morning are 
without fcent, at noon they are ftinking and naufeous, in the © 
evening ambrofial like the oriental hyacinth : having negle&ted ~ 
to pay due attention to this circumftance, we can neither con- 
firm nor contradi& it, but we fufpe@ that the different odours 
it is faid thus to diffufe are not very powerful. We take this 
opportunity of mentioning a  fa&. relative to the Manulea 
tomentofa, which we had not difcovered when we figured that 
lant; its flowers, which in the day-time have very little fcent, 
ate in the evening give forth a moft penetrating and unpleafant 
one, fo as to make a {mall greenhoufe- highly difagreeable. 
